Lyric Poem
By Drisya John
Definition
Examples
James DeFord
Italian Sonnet by James DeFord, written in 1997:
Turn back the heart you've turned awayGive back your kissing breath
Leave not my love as you have left
The broken hearts of yesterday
But wait, be still, don't lose this way
Affection now, for what you guess
May be something more, could be less
Accept my love, live for today.
William Shakespeare
Sonnet Number 18, written by William Shakespeare:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
Many lyric poems are about love, but they can be about anything which stirs the emotions.